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A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 202-215, November 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper will produce a new edition of the Rīʿ al‐Zallālah inscription, discussing in detail its paleographic features and content, and the ramifications it has on our understanding of the linguistic and religious milieu of the sixth–early seventh century Ḥigāz.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 153-182, November 2021., 2021 Abstract We investigated the rock art (petroglyphs) in the Al‐Quwaiyah Governorate (Saudi Arabia) with focus on the Musayqira site. Iconographic analysis showed a broad variety of human depictions, game animals (ibex, ass, ostrich, lion, etc.), domestic animals (cattle, camel, horse, dog, etc.), inscriptions and abstract symbols.
Meinrat O. Andreae +3 more
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Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022 Bu çalışmada Cahiliye döneminden risalete Sāsānīlerin Arap Yarımadası’ndaki dinî ve siyasi varlığı, Kur’an-ı Kerim’in bahse konu ettiği mecūs kavramının tarihsel arka planına temasla irdelenecektir.
Mehmet Alıcı
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Yemeni Inscriptions, Iraqi Chronicles, Hijazi Poetry: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Isrāʾ in Qur’an 17:1 [PDF]
, 2021 The article argues for the Sabaic sryt, cognate with Arabic sariyya (war expedition) as the basis for the verb asra (أسرى) in Quran 17. It examines three sources: South Arabian inscriptions, early chronicles (al-Waqidi, Khalifa, and al-Tabari), and a ...
Miller, Nathaniel
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, 2016 'Spätantike‘ ist nicht nur ein hochgradig ambivalenter Begriff in der europäischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Lange Zeit bezeichnete er eine Epoche, die durch den Niedergang einer ehemals blühenden antiken Hochkultur geprägt war.
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Khwadāynāmag : The Middle Persian Book of Kings [PDF]
, 2018 This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki.Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large ...
Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko
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The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period [PDF]
As a discipline, the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar began largely among Arabic-speaking Jews of the Middle Ages, particularly in the ʿAbbasid period (750–1258 CE). Indeed, it has long been acknowledged by scholars that the Hebrew grammatical tradition,
Kantor, Benjamin Paul
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The Early Christian Basilicas of Ancient Aksūm (modern Ethiopia and Eritrea)
, 2022 More than a dozen structures attest to the spread of Christianity in the kingdom of Aksum, located in Ethiopia and Eritrea from the fourth century CE to the seventh century CE.
Grasso, Valentina A.
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